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Quotes About Contagious

Narrative economics demonstrates how popular stories change through time to affect economic outcomes, including not only recessions and depressions, but also other important economic phenomena. The idea that house prices can only go up attaches to the stories of rich house flippers seen on television. The idea that gold is the safest investment attaches to stories of war and depression. These narratives have a contagious element, even if their attachment to any given celebrity is tenuous.
~ Robert J. Shiller
Rumor is the ancient Latin word for contagious narrative.
~ Robert J. Shiller
A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.
~ Rod Serling
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness.
~ Ellen G. White
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
~ Ellen G. White
We humans, it appears, are prone to overconfidence, herding behavior, unwarranted extrapolation of recent trends, and contagious waves of wishful thinking—all key ingredients of bubbles.
~ Alan S. Blinder
the most contagious form of teaching is when an instructor loves his material in the presence of others—whom he also loves.
~ Douglas Wilson
The reason is simply that when influence is spread via some contagious process, the outcome depends far more on the overall structure of the network than on the properties of the individuals who trigger it.
~ Duncan J. Watts
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
~ Jimmy Stewart
What I'm trying to tell you is this: cat people-ness is contagious. If you're not careful, they can turn you out as one of them.
~ Anna David
You're a virgin. Hell's fire, Mother Night, and may the Darkness be merciful, you're a virgin." Still clutching the coat, she eyed him warily. "There's no reason to get hysterical. It's not contagious." Jared
~ Anne Bishop
You're a virgin. Hell's fire, Mother Night, and may the Darkness be merciful, you're a virgin." Still clutching the coat, she eyed him warily. "There's no reason to get hysterical. It's not contagious.
~ Anne Bishop
In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the poor. According to filth theory, any number of contagious diseases were caused by bad air that had been made foul by excrement or rot.
~ Eula Biss
Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
Madness really is contagious, and friends are a blessing, especially when you're on your own.
~ Roberto Bolano
Maybe it was the flu. It was certainly that time of year, and a grade school was a great breeding ground for all things contagious.
~ Lisa Jackson
No me sorprendería. El hermano de milord, Mark, dice que la integridad es una enfermedad, y tan sólo puede contagiártela alguien que la padece.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
epidemic of some contagious illness to which they had already fallen victim.
~ Rose Tremain
The oxytocin doesn't just induce feelings of pleasure, it stimulates empathy and compassion, which are also contagious, and so we infect each other with kindness and that is when the human race is at its finest.
~ Ruby Wax
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
~ Alice Hoffman
Love was contagious, it passed from soul to soul, it woke a person up and shook her even when she wanted to be left alone.
~ Alice Hoffman
The human condition: It was contagious, apparently.
~ Joe Hill
All stress is self-induced, he reminded himself. It's in your mind. You don't need it. Lay it down. Panic is contagious. But so is calm. Stay calm. Do your work. Slow is
~ Joel C. Rosenberg